Nanocast!

I have been working to make this startup a reality for about eight months now. When I joined in Feb 2006, the office in Koregaon Park, Pune was a bare space without anything in place. Parsh (the COO) was losing his sleep trying to just get hold a reliable ISP, and electricians were pouring in and out, their raucous making any conversation or discussion impossible. From the bare floors in Feb, we have come a long way. With a super charged Flash team, some outstanding Java developers (and one from the original Java team), and work hours and pace that I have never before seen (no, not even in the Valley), we have finally launched the most cutting edge tool in the Web 2.0 landscape.

Check out.... Nanocast!

We think it will become the next generation tool for bloggers. Nanocast is all about "Remixing everything, everywhere" --- in other words, you grab your pics from Flickr, Photobucket, your videos from YouTube, Blip, remix them online, and then drop them either in your website, ebay, myspace or wherever you choose.

To demonstrate the power of the tool, check out the slideshow below that I created in less than 5 minutes. There are numerous gadgets in the site, so check it out...

Apple reveals iTV

Why I love Apple:

"The surprise came in the form of a preview of an unfinished product: The iTV, a small, sleek box that will let people wirelessly move digital movies, TV shows, music videos and photos from personal computers to big-screen televisions.

'I hope that gives you a little bit of an idea of where we are going,' Jobs concluded after talking for about an hour.

Jobs called the iTV 'the missing piece,' and marks the clearest signal how Apple plans to leverage the success of content through iTunes (more than 1.5 billion songs have been downloaded and 220 television shows are available) and the broad appeal of the iPod (more than 60 million have been sold) to stake its claim in your living room. Jobs said the iTV will be available in early 2007 for $299....

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Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, noted that Apple's new device will let people move videos from their computers to their televisions using only six buttons -- versus the 56 needed for the Windows XP Media Center, which was released almost two years ago with similar ambitions to be a hub for home entertainment."

Is this the beginning of the end of Satellite Television and media monopoly? I think so.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/15503747.htm